Commentary: Romney is rendering unto Trump that which is Trump’s

I respectfully disagree with the author of “An eerie absence in Romney’s commentary” (by Atticus Edwards, July 15), in which Mitt Romney’s moderate response to Donald Trump is characterized as cowardly self-preservation.Romney’s refusal to attack Trump when not absolutely necessary is undoubtedly self-preservation, but such self-preservation is calculated, not cowardly. Romney knows that the president and his administration represent extremists within the Republican